Day 3 – Prix Jeunesse (5/27)


Today was another very full day – not at all a lazy Sunday of reading the paper . . . I had breakfast with an old grad-school friend, before arriving at the conference before 9:30 AM.  We watched and discussed all day, with the highlight, oddly enough, being a program on death for kids between 7 and 10, plus any number of others, on other themes, that were noteworthy. The European countries have made a number of good programs about refugee children and how they are becoming incorporated into their new societies. Granted – this reflects a best-case scenario, but we saw a show on a kid going through Ramadan in Denmark today that was superb!
This evening, there was a wonderful presentation on using TV to encourage children to develop resilience, with clips from shows attempting to do just that. Also wonderful! And another friend, who has a daughter one year older than Ben, showed up and reminded me about a trip to the zoo with 2 children in strollers.  This would have been 28 years ago – and we haven’t seen each other since, although we have a number of friends and colleagues in common. Afterwards, the Taiwanese participants hosted a dinner and entertainment. At around 10 PM, the Latin dancing started – but I headed back to the hotel to crash, much as I would have enjoyed the music.










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